Jon Jay

Buck Showalter has been frustrated by the ambiguity of baseball’s new replay review system, so when a call was overturned against the Orioles in the seventh inning of the club’s 8-3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday afternoon, the manager wanted some answers. When an initial forceout call at second base — Jonathan Schoop lost the ball on the exchange to his throwing hand — was overturned after a challenge by the Cardinals, Showalter jumped out of the dugout, headed toward the umpires and emphatically gestured that he wanted the headset to talk to the replay officials who reversed the call in New York. “I wasn't waiting around for that...

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